Carey Reams was a chemical engineer during World War II. On January 1, 1945, on his way to report for duty, he hit a land mine, and the truck was blown up.
Thirty-one days later, he came to consciousness on an operating table, 2,500 miles away from where he had been wounded. He did not know where he was or what had happened, but as he regained consciousness, he murmured, “I sure did land easy.” Immediately after these words were spoken, he was anesthetized for the ensuing brain surgery. For the next six weeks, Carey floated in and out of consciousness, then he was shipped home, more dead than alive.
A Body Broken Beyond Repair
Carey had been crushed from the waist through the pelvis; his right eye was gone; he had lost all his teeth; his jawbone was fractured; his neck was broken, and his back was broken in two places. His legs hung entirely without sensation, but in those parts of his body in which he still retained feeling, the pain was incredibly intense. At the same time, Carey was suffering hemorrhage and had lost sixty pounds in weight. Before his healing, he had been operated on forty-one times.
A Desperate Search for Hope
A few days before Christmas, the doctor ordered Carey back to the Veterans Administration Hospital near St. Petersburg. But this time he refused to go, insisting that if he was going to die, he wanted to spend his last Christmas with his family.
It was during these few days that Carey read an article about Kathryn Kuhlman in a national magazine. At the same time, he received letters from three different friends telling him about the healing services in Pittsburgh.
A Journey of Faith
On December 28, early on a Thursday morning, Carey climbed aboard a bus bound for Pittsburgh. Approximately thirty-six hours later he arrived, but he was told that the Friday miracle service had been dismissed an hour before.
Throughout the next forty-eight hours, he had only one thought in mind—to hang on to life till he could get to the meeting at Penn Theater at Butler on December 31, 1950. With less than twenty-four hours to go, he suffered another extraordinarily severe hemorrhage which left him so weak he could not get up or walk without the help of two men.
A Divine Encounter
With their assistance, he arrived at the Penn Theater. At the door he was told that all seats were taken, there was no more room inside. Just as he was about to give up, someone inside who had noted his predicament offered him her seat. Just as he sat down, Miss Kuhlman announced, “The meeting this afternoon is a soul-searching meeting and not one for healing.”
This hit him hard; he sat half frozen. He had to use his crutches for braces to sit up, just for her to say the meeting was not for healing! He was cruelly disappointed. Though Miss Kuhlman preached a wonderful sermon, Carey was not blessed by it—he had traveled over 1,000 miles to be healed; the meeting was ending, and he was not healed.
Then, as Miss Kuhlman raised her hand for a benediction, instead of saying the benediction, she very slowly brought her hand down, and she looked directly at Carey. Pointing a finger straight at him she said, “Are you from Florida?” “Yes,” he replied in soaring hopes.
The Miracle Moment
Then, she asked him to stand up. He objected that he could not, then she returned firmly, “In the Name of Jesus, stand up and look up, and walk!” Carey started to get up on his crutches. Then Miss Kuhlman said, “Take that right crutch away.” Carey tried it and it worked. His leg bore his weight.
At that moment the pain in his body instantly vanished. Realizing that his one leg was successfully bearing his weight, Carey dropped the second crutch and stood alone and unaided. Miss Kuhlman then told him to come up on the platform. Two gentlemen stepped up to his side to help him, but he refused to be helped. He did not just walk to the platform—he ran.
This is God, and Carey Reams is a living testimony to His power.
Miraculous Monday: 14th November 2022
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